Preserved Wook is an oldtime New England railway engineman who calls to life again the history & technology not only of the steam locomotive in the LAST Steam Age of the Old Atlantic West, but of many a wonderful way of getting around in the World, in a better time when travel indeed was for the few…and the very few!

on January 30, 2009 at 8:35 pm | Reply anticant
Can’t remember whether I ever travelled in an LNER train drawn by “Mallard”, but my headmaster in the 1930s was a great steam train buff, and I’m pretty sure he must have done. LNER was our main local railway company in Yorkshire, running the fast East Coast London-Edinburgh line via York.

on January 31, 2009 at 1:10 am | Reply Emmett
Robin Barnes is an artist, notably of railway engines, who is also the protagonist of NEW departures in steam locomotives: